Jose Mourinho puts Pedro and Co through their paces as Chelsea prepare for Premier League clash against Crystal Palace 

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Jose Mourinho's Chelsea squad looked to be in a relaxed mood on Friday afternoon as the Premier League champions trained ahead of their clash against Crystal Palace. 

Eden Hazard, Cesc Fabregas and new signing Pedro were amongst those training at Chelsea's Cobham base as the club look to get their season back on track after a slow start.

Mourinho's side have picked up just four points from a possible nine so far this season, but the Portuguese boss believes their poor start is 'no drama'. 

Cesc Fabregas (right) attempts to take the ball from Belgian forward Eden Hazard during Chelsea training

Chelsea new boy Pedro was all smiles as the squad trained ahead of Crystal Palace's visit to Stamford Bridge

Brazilian youngster Kenedy looked at ease as he enjoyed Chelsea training on Friday afternoon

He said: 'One match at home, two matches away, four points is not what we want, but four points is not a drama.

'When you are five points behind a leader in another league that can be complicated. In the Premier League it's not complicated.

'(Manchester City are) a good team and they started well. Last season Chelsea started the same, or better, because we won seven or eight consecutive matches and we arrived on January 1 with the same points as other teams (level with City).

Gary Cahill (centre) looks certain to start on Saturday in the absence of the suspended John Terry  

Blues boss Jose Mourinho smiles as he gestures to his players during the training session 

Chelsea defender Baba Rahman (left) gets past the challenge of fellow new boy Kenedy  

'When the start is good, it's good. It doesn't mean you're going all the way.'

Chelsea beat Palace 1-0 to secure a first Premier League title in five years on May 3 and Mourinho hopes to, at least, avoid defeat in his 100th Premier League home game.

Mourinho, who refused to discuss the Champions League draw against his former club Porto, Dynamo Kiev and Maccabi Tel-Aviv, added: 'If I don't win, I don't get a good memory of 100 matches, because the 99 are not important.

'If last season (Palace) were good, this season they are going to be even better. 

Blues youngster Ruben Loftus-Cheek in action as Diego Costa (right) keeps a watchful eye

Branislav Ivanovic (right) is closed down by Chelsea youngster Nathaniel Chalobah (second left) 

Captain John Terry was sent off in the 3-2 win at The Hawthorns and is suspended, with Gary Cahill and Kurt Zouma likely to line-up in central defence.

Chelsea have one loss in Mourinho's 99 home games - against Sunderland in April 2014 - but have already conceded seven goals in three games this term, including a 3-0 loss at Manchester City.

'We did a few things (in training),' Mourinho said.

'We defended with nine men. I didn't work the defenders, I worked the team, because you cannot blame defenders for goals conceded, because a team is a team and a good team defends as a team.'